Questions for Gun Controllers - If a policy doesn’t produce the intended results, why pursue it?

National Review Online ^ | December 28, 2012 | Rich Lowry

[BerryDingle]

What’s the functional difference between a so called "assault weapon" and a semiautomatic rifle?

Q. What is the similarity between Hussein Obama and an "assault weapon"?

A. Whatever in the minds of liberals they want them to be.

[MachIV]

Basically, they are the same, aren’t they? My dad had a Savage in .222 when I was small. You don’t see them much anymore. It puts the fear in Pucsatony Phil. I know that much.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Almost. The .222 Rem is smaller, the .222 Rem Mag is larger.

The three in the center all the same, just different names. The only difference in the three is the 5.56 has a thicker interior wall and therefore the case capacity for gunpowder is slightly smaller.

[Teacher317]

Because the stated intended results are not the true results intended.

FR needs a "like" button. after your post, there's little more to add... but I still want to share in expressing the statement, LOL.

[trebb]

A government policy gives the government power. If the policy does not work, then the government has an excuse to take on more power. The End.

What you said - the real intended result is less Freedom for the People and gun-related violence has nothing to do with it.

[expat2]

There is a true assault weapon, and there is a big functional difference. The term is used in the military for an automatic weapon which is used in full automatic mode to provide 'suppression fire' to force the enemy to keep their heads down so that an assault team can attack with minimal return fire.

Don't help the opponents blur the difference between true assault weapons and semi-automatic rifles, which almost all sporting rifles are (but not muzzle-loaders or bolt-action rifles).

[Osage Orange]

They are all deadly.............

[Osage Orange]

You know....pardon me, but ALL rifles, ALL pistols, ALL gun's can be called "assault weapons" by the left!

Any gun pointed at me...is an "assault weapon" period.

During WWII most soldiers carried semi-autos.

I've shot pump-shotgun's and semi-autos...Hard to say...in the right hands what's faster.

I own some gun's...I prefer pump or bolt-action long gun's. That's just my preference. I own some pistols too. Some semi-auto...

And they are all "assault weapon's." Don't let the MSM blur the line..............

[MrB]

There are two real reasons behind leftists pursuing any policy that demonstrably doesn’t work, and both reasons hide behind the “sounds good” front reason.

For the sheeperal, as you said, it’s all about self-righteousness through advocacy.

For the progressive communist, it’s all about advancing a power agenda behind the guise of “good” policy.

[Osage Orange]

Don't help the opponents blur the difference between true assault weapons and semi-automatic rifles, which almost all sporting rifles are (but not muzzle-loaders or bolt-action rifles).

One other thing...........I'd bet you more bolt-action rifles are out there...than semi-auto's. I think you are wrong.

[Ajnin]

I think a better question is why we patriots keep asking questions we already know that answers to?

The gun grabbers want gun confiscation and mass murder. They want to be able to f*ck with law abiding citizens with impunity and not have to worry about the consequences.

We will never get any kind of rational response from people that literally want the power of life and death over the rest of us.

[Clock King]

They pursue it because they are emotional feminized children. They want mommy and daddy to protect them so they don’t have to deal with that nasty responsibility thing.

[Secret Agent Man]

The only ultimate goal is disarming the public. For whatever reasons that may be tossed around, this is really the only one. All the reasons lead to disarming the public.

[dearolddad]

Correction: What’s the functional difference between a so called "assault weapon" and a semiautomatic rifle?

What most of the gun control morons don't seem to understand is: I can assault you with a single shot .22 bolt action.

[lentulusgracchus]

[Lowry article] In your zeal against guns, do you favor stop-and-frisk policies to catch people carrying illegal guns in major urban areas? In your view, to make a public policy worth pursuing, should it have a discernible connection to its stated goal? Or is it enough that the policy be well-intentioned and opposed by the NRA?

Hey, hey, hey there, laddie-buck!! None of that, now! You keep your eyes glued firmly on the mcguffin, on the proposition as framed by the grabbers, and never you mind about ulterior motives and what's going on under the table!

Who do you think you are, anyway? A citizen?

[Jabba the Nutt]

"If a policy doesn’t produce the intended results, why pursue it?

First, with Liberal/Leftists, you need to determine what the intended results are. What they say they intend, is a lie, boob bait for the bubbas.

[Jabba the Nutt]

What weapons did the perp use in Newtown? I’ve heard the .223 Bushmaster was recovered from his car. What’s the truth here?

[palmer]

I’ve seen two videos of the gun being pulled from the trunk. In one the officer racks it and a shell drops out, clearly a shotgun. The other is blurry but seems to have a magazine like a rifle. I’d go with shotgun in the trunk as long as the clear video is not fake

[expat2]

Most in the attic, I suspect.

[expat2]

ALL rifles, ALL pistols, ALL gun's can be called "assault weapons"

You are going to lose your bolt-action rifle(s), too, if you keep saying that....